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Evermore
by Alyson Noël
Well, that was a few hours of my life that I'll never get back.
This book was just awful. In fact, it was so awful that I have lost my ability to coherently review.
Here's what I did not like:
1. Ever - she's so incredibly selfish and this doesn't really change throughout the book. She's also obsessed with a paranormal boy. She makes Bella Swan's obsession look tame.
2. Ever's coping mechanisms - Ever has lost her entire family in an accident, but her sister does ghost back into her life fairly frequently. Despite this loss, Ever doesn't seem sad about it or truly messed up in the least (unless it's insecurities about paranormal boy). She decides drinking tons of vodka and wearing hoodies all the time is a great way to be interesting and to dull her physic abilities that she gained through her own near death experience. Not once does she mention the pain of losing her family during this part of the book.
3. All the side characters - Who are they again? It's like they're all the same person.
4. Plot - What even happened? Girl meets boy, and they fall in insta-love (seriously there is nothing in this romance that makes it romantic or believable). Boy's wife (WOAH) tries to kill girl. Girl kills wife with "the power of love". WHAAAAAAAT?
5. Half-Assed Mythology - World building requires both a world and the building of that world, not terrible one-liner explanations after the fact. See "red drink" that makes people immortal", explanation of alchemy, and the fourth chakra.
6. Ever and boy can manifest whatever they want in their own little psychic world as well as the real world. Ugh.
7. Ever can read minds. Well, everyone's mind except for boy's. What book does that sound like? Seriously. It's a god-awful rip off of Edward Cullen, except PLOT TWIST, it's the girl this time!!!
There's more, but that's all the attention span that I have left to offer this book. It had a nice premise. Girl loses her family in an accident and due to her near death experience can see auras and hear thoughts. Sounds cool, right?
Only it wasn't. Don't do it. Save yourself the trouble.
I can't bring myself to put this in my classroom library. The message in it just isn't good, the writing isn't good, and there's better stuff out there for paranormal romance. The first and second book that I found at Goodwill will be going back to Goodwill. I'm not even opening book #2.
This book was just awful. In fact, it was so awful that I have lost my ability to coherently review.
Here's what I did not like:
1. Ever - she's so incredibly selfish and this doesn't really change throughout the book. She's also obsessed with a paranormal boy. She makes Bella Swan's obsession look tame.
2. Ever's coping mechanisms - Ever has lost her entire family in an accident, but her sister does ghost back into her life fairly frequently. Despite this loss, Ever doesn't seem sad about it or truly messed up in the least (unless it's insecurities about paranormal boy). She decides drinking tons of vodka and wearing hoodies all the time is a great way to be interesting and to dull her physic abilities that she gained through her own near death experience. Not once does she mention the pain of losing her family during this part of the book.
3. All the side characters - Who are they again? It's like they're all the same person.
4. Plot - What even happened? Girl meets boy, and they fall in insta-love (seriously there is nothing in this romance that makes it romantic or believable). Boy's wife (WOAH) tries to kill girl. Girl kills wife with "the power of love". WHAAAAAAAT?
5. Half-Assed Mythology - World building requires both a world and the building of that world, not terrible one-liner explanations after the fact. See "red drink" that makes people immortal", explanation of alchemy, and the fourth chakra.
6. Ever and boy can manifest whatever they want in their own little psychic world as well as the real world. Ugh.
7. Ever can read minds. Well, everyone's mind except for boy's. What book does that sound like? Seriously. It's a god-awful rip off of Edward Cullen, except PLOT TWIST, it's the girl this time!!!
There's more, but that's all the attention span that I have left to offer this book. It had a nice premise. Girl loses her family in an accident and due to her near death experience can see auras and hear thoughts. Sounds cool, right?
Only it wasn't. Don't do it. Save yourself the trouble.
I can't bring myself to put this in my classroom library. The message in it just isn't good, the writing isn't good, and there's better stuff out there for paranormal romance. The first and second book that I found at Goodwill will be going back to Goodwill. I'm not even opening book #2.